October was insane!!! I can't believe how many Halloween festivities I participated in this year. I love this time of year (along with every other girl in the world). I found myself wishing I were more crafty a lot this year... I think it's one of those things that maybe runs in your genes. Or, perhaps it's just something that comes along once you have your own house? Anyway, I did help dress up my niece as a bat for her gymnastics Halloween party. Check out her face paint--talk about crafty, right? right??

Another update that has happened this month, is I got a new job. Actually, I got a major promotion. I worked in Vivint's Channel Partners department for about 9 months, and really loved it. It was a great foundation for my career. I had the opportunity to travel all over and interact with amazing people. I learned a lot about myself (and I'm not just saying that). It was challenging, and it stretched me in ways that I'd never been stretched before.

However, with time I felt that it was the right thing for me to look for a new job. My top choice was to stay at Vivint. I started looking around internally, and was pretty open-minded as to what I wanted to do. I wanted there to come a point where I could make a decision, based on my options. My fear was having to just do something. I wanted to stay at Vivint, and do something that would continue to foster personal growth, and push me out of my comfort zone a bit. Fortunately, I had options. I had a few different offers at Vivint, and I was eventually able to choose what I actually wanted to do. Looking back on the whole experience, I see that it was a huge blessing, and everything really fell into place.

My new title is the Technical Recruiting Coordinator. I love how busy I am every day. It makes a huge difference when you're at work, and the time goes by quickly. I wouldn't have it any other way. Once again I can say--"I love my job." What a blessing that is.

Here we are on Halloween. Everyone was banking that we were going to win the Company costume contest. We didn't... but I still think we were a legit biker gang.

Halloween Festivities

October has always been a favorite month, but the one thing I will say is that I've always absolutely loathed going to haunted houses. Went to the Fear Factory in Salt Lake. Reeeealllly didn't want to go. Like reeeeeeeeeally did NOT want to. I'm pretty sure I had anxiety the entire day before. I can say now that I did it, and I'm glad it's over :)

Halloween party up in Logan, complete with a pumpkin carving extravaganza.

On Halloween night, we went to shoot some Zombies--it was probably the most memorable Halloween ever! What better activity could you possibly do on Halloween, that is more appropriate than that?? (maybe trick-or-treating, but we're now past that age...)

Afterward we watched some ridiculously scary movie with Jennifer Lawrence, that gave me nightmares for a week.

Trip down to St. George

A few weeks ago I went down to St. George. We stayed in a condo for 3 days, and had a blast. It was my first time to Zion's National Park. I still can't believe I've been in Utah this long, and that was my first time there! What an amazing place! We did some awesome hikes, ate good food, played way too many games, swam, and had a blast!

Gorgeous views!

 

Oh yeah, and we also went to the coolest candy store I've ever been to in my life! They had an array of entertaining edible devices. We spent at least an hour in there (I probably could have stayed for several hours longer) Stephen's Mom was enamored by the cinnamon toothpicks! haha they apparently took her on a major trip down memory lane.

Reunion with my girl Neesh!

 I love getting together with this friend! We hit up the Aggie Basketball game vs USC, and caught up on the past few months!

Jazz Game

 For our Veterans Day activity. we sat in the Vivint Box at the Jazz game. It was a great night, and it was super cool to see them honor this vet on the jumbotron!

 

 Tomorrow I get to get on a plane and go to Nepal, a 3rd world country. It will be a life-changing experience. I can't wait.

Peace out America!!!